{"id":3681,"date":"2013-02-20T21:50:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T03:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2013-02-20T21:50:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T03:50:04","slug":"mfdj022013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=3681","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 20, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Panicked Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By 1:30 a.m. on Monday, October 9, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire, which began at 8:40 p.m. the previous night, could no longer be stopped, only watched. \u00a0In their panic to escape the city, people trampled one another. \u00a0Even as they tried to outrun the flames, women stopped to give birth in the street, their labors induced by fear and excitement; some mothers and newborns burned to death on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1893121070\/theasylumeclecti%20\">Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes That Shaped a City<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Panicked Yet Truly Morbid Fact! By 1:30 a.m. on Monday, October 9, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire, which began at 8:40 p.m. the previous night, could no longer be stopped, only watched. \u00a0In their panic to escape the city, people trampled one another. \u00a0Even as they tried to outrun the flames, women stopped to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}